Segregated in Death

by Peter J. Leithart

It is hard to mourn together while we have different understandings of death and the sacred. Continue Reading »

29 Jul 2016

The Church and the Street

by Peter J. Leithart

Pentecostalism breaks down traditional dichotomies of sacred and secular.  Continue Reading »

24 Aug 2015

Post-Post-Secular Politics

by Peter J. Leithart

Francoist Spain was a counterfeit church, a sacred corpus mysticum. Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2015

Dualism and Teleology

by Peter J. Leithart

At the heart of Scruton’s  Soul of the World is a plea for a “cognitive dualism” that he sets in opposition to all “nothing but” reductionisms - music is nothing but sounds, painting nothing but pigments on canvas, the world nothing but matter in motion, humans . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Apr 2014

The Sacred and the Covenant

by Peter J. Leithart

The sacred is Janus-faced, writes Roger Scruton in Soul of the World(15): “Sacred objects, words, animals, ceremonies, places all seem to stand at the horizon of our world, looking out to that which is not of this world, because it belongs in the sphere of the divine, and looking also . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Apr 2014